Improvement in clothes-pins



UNITED ST TES HENRY WELLS, 0F CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-PINS,

Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 128,934, dated July 9, 1872,

To all to whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, HENRY WELLS, of Oam bridge, in the county of Sulfolk and in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawin g and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The objectof my invention is to prevent the ordinary crotched clothes-pin from splitting when pressed upon the clothes-to secure them to the line; and it consists in a groove and Shoulder being formed in the pin at or immediately above the crotch for the insertion of a ring of metal or other suitable material.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a

longitudinal section, of my improved clothes A represents the ordinary wooden crotched clothes pin. At or immediately above the crotch is made a groove around the pin with a shoulder, a, projecting down over the Same, and in said groove is placed a ring, b, of metal or other suitable material, which will stren gthen the pin at the crotch and prevent it from Splitting.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-pin, A, provided with groove and shoulder a and ring b, substantially as and for the purposes herein Set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of May, 1872.

' HENRY WELLS.

Witnesses:

J. F. BALLISTER,

H. PARK R FELLOWS. 

